Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Assignment Due 3/4/08

Articles 25 & 26


 

Multiple Choice

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.


 

____    1.    According to Robert Smith, Mexicans do not fit "naturally" into any one spot in New York's social and racial hierarchies. They enter New York with dual identities, both as:

a. 

Mexicans and residents. 

b. 

Immigrants and residents. 

c. 

Immigrants and Latinos. 

d. 

None of the above 


 


 

____    2.    Smith believes the social distress experienced by Mexicans can be attributed to:

a. 

a surge in Mexican youth migration in the 1990s 

b. 

increasing anti-Mexican sentiments in the 1990s 

c. 

less jobs became available to Mexican immigrants 

d. 

all of the above 


 


 

____    3.    According to Robert Smith, most Mexican gang confrontations involve conflicts with:

a. 

Puerto Ricans 

b. 

African-Americans 

c. 

both a and b 

d. 

neither a or b 


 


 

____    4.    Most of the Vietnamese immigrants participating in Nazli Kibria's study were from ____backgrounds in southern Vietnam.

a. 

lower class 

b. 

urban, middle class 

c. 

upper class 

d. 

urban, working class 


 


 

____    5.    At the time of Nazli Kibria's study, over ____ percent of the adult men in the households studied were unemployed.

a. 

30 

b. 

50 

c. 

25 

d. 

none of the above 


 


 

____    6.    According to Nazli Kibria, a key aspect of the social and economic oppression of women in traditional Vietnamese life was the ____extended household.

a. 

matrilineal 

b. 

patrilineal 

c. 

contemporary 

d. 

Equalitarian 


 


 

Essay


 

    7.    What distinctions do Robert Smith make between Puerto Ricans and Mexicans?


 

    8.    How did Vietnamese women view the traditional family system? Of what benefit was it to them?


 

    9.    According to Nazli Kibria's study, why were the economic opportunities of Vietnamese women not enough to make independence from the men an attractive economic reality?


 

    10.    Explain how Vietnamese women have reshaped family and community life.


 

Short Answer


 

    11.    Internet Questions:


 

Vietnamese Women in the year 2000

http://www.un.org.vn/undocs/wphot/wphot.pdf


 

a. Discuss the role of Vietnamese woemn int he migration process.

b. How do these women assist their families in the migration process.

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